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Issue Details: First known date: 1947... 1947 Adventure Down Under
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A fifteen-year-old American boy comes to Australia to be reunited with his father. While waiting to meet up with his father the boy is invited to stay on a cattle station, but he and his new friends are trapped in the bush by a desperate criminal.

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  • H. M. Saxby's A History of Australian Children's Literature 1941-1970 (1971): 59 comments: 'This type of book helped establish the sandwich-type story, a fairly limp filling of mystery or suspense between layers of local colour.'

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Recent Children's Books 1948 single work review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal , February vol. 2 no. 8 1948; (p. 425, 427-430)
— Review of The Tale of Gregory Grasshopper D. H. Gilmore , 1942 single work picture book ; Marmaduke the Possum Pixie O'Harris , 1942 single work children's fiction ; Adventure Down Under Claire Meillon , 1947 single work children's fiction ; The Vain Red Fox Franklin Moss , 1947 single work ; Timothy Tatters Ruth C. Williams , 1947 single work children's fiction ; Miranda with the Mouse Margaret Mary Pearson , 1947 single work children's fiction ; The Magic Pudding : Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff Norman Lindsay , 1918 single work children's fiction
Recent Children's Books 1948 single work review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal , February vol. 2 no. 8 1948; (p. 425, 427-430)
— Review of The Tale of Gregory Grasshopper D. H. Gilmore , 1942 single work picture book ; Marmaduke the Possum Pixie O'Harris , 1942 single work children's fiction ; Adventure Down Under Claire Meillon , 1947 single work children's fiction ; The Vain Red Fox Franklin Moss , 1947 single work ; Timothy Tatters Ruth C. Williams , 1947 single work children's fiction ; Miranda with the Mouse Margaret Mary Pearson , 1947 single work children's fiction ; The Magic Pudding : Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff Norman Lindsay , 1918 single work children's fiction
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